RTIF SMAT is EBCDIC now in 5.3

[Tom Patton]

On v5.3 rev3 It looks like the SMAT is written after pre-write rather then at state 11 as it had been in the past.  The impact is that now the SMAT contains data in EBCDIC rather than ASCII.

Is there a fix for this, perhaps a new RTIF, or how have you worked around this?

Thank you.

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[Elizabeth Wilson]

Does it make any difference in SMAT? You may display it in different formats using ENCODING drop list. What happened to me, after using the new RTIF in 5.3 was that the DEBUG in RTIF was displaying EBCDIC in the log file of command-engine output. Charlie advised me to insert the hcitpstblconvert proc before SendokSMS and that took care of it. I hope this helps.

[James Cobane]

Tom,

I believe SMAT has always saved the messages in this way.  If I recall, SMAT kicks-in just after processing the message through the protocol threads.  I’ve always had to click on EBCDIC encoding within the SMAT tool when dealing with TIF/RTIF messages.  However, there is an issue with going into EDIT mode from the Client SMAT GUI; it re-displays in EBCDIC making it essentially impossible to edit an EBCDIC message.  I don’t know if this is still the case with 5.3, but I know it was in previous Platform V versions.

Hope this helps.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Tom Patton]

We just migrated from 3.8.1 and SMAT was in ASCII for these threads on that version.  Elizabeth, I didn’t think it would matter either, but like Jim says, you lose the ability to edit.

And wouldn’t you know it, I’m developing a new interface now and I typically use the edit function to model the msg.

[James Cobane]

Tom,

There is a work-around to allow you to edit; it’s using the old SMAT GUI (via X-windows). You need to put the attached file (remove the .tcl extension, though) into the $HCIROOT/usercmds directory (edit the first line for the appropriate path and make it executable), and then add the following line to the hci users

.profile:

export VISUAL=hciedit

Hope this helps.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Ryan Boone]

Thanks to Jim last year I was able to edit from the original SMATs as well. In fact, I still exclusively use the old SMAT Tool because you can open as many as you need at once, they’re faster to load, and whenever you use the new SMAT the entire GUI hangs while you’re loading large files.

[Sandy McQuay]

Thanks for posting these instructions and file Jim!  Since we moved to platform 5, I too, use the “old” gui because it’s much faster.  However, I always had a problem if I needed to edit a message or if I was looking at ebcdic.

[Traci Zee]

I’d like to make vi the editor for the old command line hcismat.  How do I do that for AIX 5.2?

hciedit doesn’t have find/replace all functions and vi does.

TIA,

Traci

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